Book Excerptess Sergeant at Sfax, with the 4th Spahis. I had a good record, and besides, as I did not drink, the Adjutant had assigned me to the officers' mess. It was a soft berth. The marketing, the accounts, recording the library books which were borrowed (there weren't many), and the key of the wine cupboard, --for with that you can't trust orderlies. The Colonel was young and dined at mess. One evening he came in late, looking perturbed, and,...